Altamahaw Ford
Altamahaw Ford
ALTAMAHAW FORD. The action generally known as Haw River (or Pyle's Defeat) occurred in North Carolina on 25 February 1781. It is referred to by Kenneth Roberts in his Oliver Wiswell (1940) as Altamahaw Ford in the text and as Attamahaw Ford on the endpaper map. The former is accurate and is now the location of a NASCAR racetrack.
SEE ALSO Haw River, North Carolina.
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